The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-10-07

the late Prime Minister'S. The
Malcontent has come to life and ao-
tiyity under the "new order of
things" and is q creation of the
"Gazette's.'
The Sorehead fraternity embraced
a large proportion of the best ele-
ments of the country. A man could
be changed from a good, loyal, sub
servient, obsequious subject into a
Sorehead in a jiffy, No matter how
patriotic, unselflsh, and sincerely
DESTROYS Of advancing the general
good he may have been, if he dis
approved of the misuse of public
money, uttered word against coro-
nations and jubilees, entertained the
opinion that a mission TO Russia or
Samoa was waste and bunkum, har-
bored the thought that the creation
of an army and a navy for popu-
lation of eighty thousand peaceable
people, with no distant possessions
except Mokupapapa, was the acme of
righteousness, harbored the belief
that any act of the Administration
was q deviation from exact straight
ness, or uttered one word against
anything emanating from Govern
ment House or the Palace, he at
once became n Sorehead.
1t was a dreadful thing to be a
Sorehead. A greater misfortune
could not happen to man. The
decorated aristocracy looked down
upon him with disdain. Fortunate
" the whole tribe was converted
into something else less ignoble and
less contemplate by the Revolution.
Since then, however, some of
those very converts have become
Malcontents, and it is hard to say
which is the greater disgrace, to be
a Sorehead or a Malcontent. 1t is
as easy now to join the latter frater-
nifty as it was to become member
OF the former. Say that you do not
approve of everything which has
been done since the 30th of June,
or that some appointment may not
have been the best possible, or that
some dismissal does not appear to
accord with published promises, or
that machine politics were feature
of the elections, or that the patrio-
tism of some people consists of de-
sire for office and love of its emolu-
ments, or that the new Government
has committed any error whatsoever,
and you are Malcontent right
away. Give it as your candid OPT
Mon that the Minister of Interior
has tall look about him, and that
the Acknowledgement is younger
than his grandfather, and that will
thrust you into the new society. TO
become a distinguished member,
with Billingsgate title, just write
mild letter to the BULLETIN, to the
effect that you cannot see absolute
reformation in everything done in
the name Of reform. Besides the
honorable title, this will make you
life member and an agent of all the
most atrocious motives on earth and
beneath the earth.
All it is easy to become Nal
content. The road is broad and
downhill. Honesty, uprightness,
singleness of purpose, conscientious
efforts at real reform, and disinter-
estedness in every endeavor for the
public good cannot save you from
the stigma of being Malcontent,
if you incautlously commit any of
the deeds above mentioned.
10 keep yourself right and to
avoid suspicion of being a MaIcon-
tent, shout, and keep on shouting,
Reform! Reform! When an inno-
cents head comes tumbling off,
shout, Reform. When salary of
$4,000 a year is attached to an
office that has always been honorary
before, shout, Reform. When the
spoils are being divided among the
victors, and scramble ensues for
the largest wallets, shout, Reform.
At anything, everything, and all the
time keep wound up to shouting
pitch, and rattle it out like the ex-
plosion Of blunderbus. That's
the way to do it, and escape the
unutterable and crushing disgrace
of being poor, miserable, low,
God-forsaken, despicabIe, ontlawed
MalconteDt
POLICE IMPROVEMENT.